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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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rn to Europe wasi by the In me of the Polish prov-- to aid him against the Prussians, then athen tri ithuanian stock, who werecontinually invading hi- territory. TheseI ins the German priest-warrii . c\-inated, and they began to dream of build- ing up on Polish soil a state independent iPoland. With this in view, they wagedtinual warfare against Poland and intrigagainst her at all the courts of Europe. Therapacity of the Knights was checked by their.t at Plowce, on September 27,1331. Butfrom the blow delivered them on July 15,1at Grunwald, when iS.oooof the Knight-.withtheir Grand M Ulrica von Jungingen, were left dead on the field ^i battle, while14.000 were made prisoners of war. theTeutonic Order never recovered. Its domin-ion- were secularized, and on April 10. 1in Cracow, the Polish capital, it- l rrand Master, Albert, Puke irg, ten- th i^i fidelity for East Prushimself and all his SUOmund o\ Poland. The five-hundredth anni\< of the LEADIXG ARTICLES OF THE MO XT EI 359
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COMMEMORATING THE BATTLE OF GRUNWALD AT STATEN ISLAND. N. Y.e of the Polish-American military organizations marching past the reviewing stand > great victory nwald was celebrated / r by th : the world over. Fifty thousand Poles of New York and its vicinity commemorated the event on Staten Island. Grunwald is not merely a Moody memorial of Polands prowess in arms. H id the hydra of which was bom the later kingdom not been crushed under the hoofs of the Polish -ki in the V N >rk Tribune, the Iman deluge would have effaced Polonismfrom Poland, a^ it had obliterated tern Slavonians on the Elbe, tin- Spree, andthe Oder. Without .. nwald, Poland Poland/» vi< tory i the -uld no(tted in i .■ rn Poland.■in K i• ! G i li rlin.njoir ii. i he ;• thai in th :i <.ij,i i . <in Jul I th< rru a, the tin- globe. Besides the sons and daughters ofPoland there came to this Cracow celebrationof Polands great day more than 200 Bohe-mians, Bulgarians, Croatians, Servians,Sl

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